Lynchburg Virginian

From the Detroit Journal, July 30

INDIAN WAR ON THE MISSISSIPPI.—A letter has been received here, dated Sault Ste. Marie, June 8. It states, a trader had arrived the evening before from Lapointe, with information that in the beginning of winter the Sioux attacked fifteen lodges of Chippewas and Crees at Red Lake, and killed every living being in the lodges, even to the dogs. That another attack was made by 200 Sioux on eight lodges of the Chippewas, containing thirty men, with their families, and two Canadians, near Lake Courtorelle, in the beginning of January. The Chippewas were discovered a short time before the attack, the alarm was given, and a breast-work erected. The fight continued from 1 o'clock till sunset; one Chippewa was killed and six wounded: the two Canadians were also wounded. It was reported that but five of the Sioux were wounded and none killed.

The writer further states, that the Indians are "all up in arms"

They are collecting along the lake from Lapointe up, to make a general attack on the Sioux. All the Indians from Lapointe, able to bear arms, have already left that place to join the Lac Courtorelle and other bands for that purpose. The Chippewas will be headed by a noted war chief belonging to the Lac Courtorelle band.

This intelligence is not unexpected. War was waged between these tribes the last season, and a renewal of it is a matter of course. It will be perceived that all the tribes, spread over the immense region, extending from Lac Courtorelle, south of the Falls of St. Anthony, to Red Lake, 40 miles from the extreme sources of the Mississippi, are involved in the contest.